Video: 'Hair (Original Broadway Cast Recording)' (19 videos)

(Tuesday, October 17, 1967, 8:30 p.m. EDT) — Hair, the first “rock musical,” premiered tonight at the new Public Theater (still under construction) at 425 Lafayette Street in the former Astor Library in Lower Manhattan.

Featuring a “multiracial cast of hippies” and “full-frontal nudity of the cast” to close one scene, the show combined the music of Galt McDermot and the lyrics of James Rado and Gerome Ragni.

Hair would open on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre on Apr. 29, 1968.

Video: 'West Coast cast of HAIR - "Smother Brothers" show, 1968, high quality version' (taped Nov. 29, 1968)